{"id":550,"date":"2015-10-07T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=550"},"modified":"2015-10-07T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:53:15","slug":"china-launches-20th-beidou-satellite-with-hydrogen-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"China Launches 20th BeiDou Satellite with Hydrogen Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a new-generation BeiDou satellite into orbit at 7:13 a.m. China Standard Time on\u00a0Wednesday, Sept. 30, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2015-09\/30\/c_134673630.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xinhua News Agency<\/a>,\u00a0the 20th satellite for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a first for BeiDou, the new BeiDou satellite is equipped with a\u00a0hydrogen maser atomic clock. A series of tests related to the clock and a new navigation-signal system will be undertaken, according to the center as reported by Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>China plans to expand the BeiDou services to most of the countries covered in its \u201cBelt and Road\u201d initiative by 2018, and offer global coverage by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Named after the Chinese term for the plough or the Big Dipper constellation, the BeiDou project was formally launched in 1994.\u00a0The first BeiDou satellite was launched in\u00a02000.<\/p>\n<p>Two videos of the launch are available on the CCTV\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.cntv.cn\/video\/C10598\/fc23e87770b3451584ed26483da9dcf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.cntv.cn\/video\/C10336\/a39369e2b8774ff39d55c0f658f8585f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/gpsworld.com\/china-launches-20th-beidou-satellite-with-hydrogen-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/gpsworld.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched a new-generation BeiDou satellite into orbit at 7:13 a.m. China Standard Time on\u00a0Wednesday, Sept. 30, according to the Xinhua News Agency,\u00a0the 20th satellite&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,35,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}